Coalition of Franchisee Associations

April 3, 2023

Maze on McDonald's Managment Hiding in Plain Sight

Despite Strong sales, MCD prepares for layoffs

15 comments:

Richard Adams said...

On Twitter Jonathan said:

Jonathan Maze
@jonathanmaze

"Operators are scratching their heads about it. Many believe the lost G&A will fall on them. Or they wonder why they would do this at a time when performance is so strong.

I wonder if it backfires. Morale-busting layoffs are not a great performance incentive."
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Anonymous said...

Read "When McKinsey Comes to Town". It explains it all. They are the modern day corporate Rasputin whispering into the SLT ear.

Anonymous said...

Wonder how that would work.....closing my office this week as we are restructuring our leadership team and G&A please cancel all our RGR visits and suspend all unannounced visits during this time.

What a way to run a company unbelievable.

Anonymous said...

Would the EVP reccomend laying off thousands during the Holidays?? I feel for McD employees

Anonymous said...

I recently read the NOA email about leadership. And using chat GPT. Wow. That was incredible. Hopefully Maze gets a copy.

Richard Adams said...

His E-mail address is at the beginning of his articles. Same with Heather at the WSJ. Both use Twitter's messaging.

Anonymous said...

The plan is to fire a ton of people who provide services to the system's franchise owners. When those services are unavailable, franchise owners must then do for themselves.

It transfers those costs from MCD's balance sheet to yours. It is the private equity playbook when they take over a franchise system.

Anonymous said...

jmaze@winsightmedia.com. Heather.haddon@wsj.com

Anonymous said...

DO CHRIS K AND JOE HAVE A HEART? DO THEY CARE ABOUT EMPLOYEE MORALE? THE ANSWER IS NO. ITS BAD ENOUGH THAT THEY ARE CUTTING JOBS AND SERVICES, BUT TO KEEP YOUR STAFF IN LIMBO ABOUT WHETHER THEY EVEN HAVE A JOB IS HORRENDOUS!

Anonymous said...

Any word on impacted positions? Hearing Operations Associate Leads impacted…

Anonymous said...

They have eliminated our whole Field office Construction Dept.

Anonymous said...

I’m hearing people department within FO as well.

Anonymous said...


How interesting.
McDonald's Leadership devises all these people rules, adds Brand Standard Visits with their auditing group, Joe E. states "because the Owner/Operators requested them". We know that is not the case it is a control issue. They stop the McD goes to DC, and rumor has it, let go their Government Relations Staff? Ha Ha Chris and Joe guess the NOA Attorney's comments have your worried. They plan on adding an additional 1,200 new locations, while adding store openings as 25% of their staffs TIP bonus requirements. Then they cut the development teams, really that makes sense, guess they save 25% of TIP payouts.
We allow the company to continue to breach the Franchise Agreement, Threaten Owner/Operators ability to keep their restaurants and make new rules constantly using a BS VOICE System. Threatening to not allow us to keep our restaurants after spending millions to update their buildings, and adding an insane amount of new equipment to NRBES. Then invite all the Owner/Operators to go to Las Vegas in October with their Leadership Staff. STOP the MADNESS finally say NO! Tell them collectively we will not listen to the BS any longer. Boycott Las Vegas Meeting why spend additional funds to allow McDonald's Leadership taint our staffs minds. They already are leaving our restaurants in record number from the blitz of the Corporate Inspections. Protect your own Leadership Teams.

Anonymous said...

BOYCOTT VEGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vote of NO CONFIDENCE!

Anonymous said...

I understand the cost of VEGAS is $1,800.00
not including room & flight

who can verify this?

flight ????? average 500.00

room 3 nights double 600.00 low end

$2,900.00. Not paying TEAM
law is you should - we say IF YOU WANT TO
GO - YOU WILL NOT BE PAID - in 30+ years
no one said NO

like previous comments my TEAM is not
going & I can take them either at the
same time or a month earlier / save a ton of
cash & we will have a way better time 😀

NO CRIS - NO JOE - NO HEADACHE 🤕🤕

NOA should recommend not going
to the 1,000+ operators / unfortunately
will only get 5% to 15%

NO NO - WE WON’T GO !!!!!!!! ???????

PS - I would not go if MCD paid

they lost their values years ago
no way are they & I aligned